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as in blinded
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as in myopic
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Adjective
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Stay true to your March vote, board members, and hire an interim CPS boss who won’t risk the system’s insolvency because of the mayor’s myopic ideological rigidity.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 2025 -
Nurture them along and do not let the myopic pressures of others convince you otherwise.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
Adjective
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But excluding foreign energy altogether from a national energy security strategy is shortsighted.—
Aldo Flores-Quiroga,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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Every organization fires and reassigns personnel, but doing so based on time served rather than performance is shortsighted, particularly if workers later identified as essential cannot be quickly hired back.—
Mara Karlin,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And people with at least four hours of daily screen time were twice as likely to be nearsighted than individuals with less screen time.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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And once people became nearsighted, screen time was tied to 54 percent higher odds that their myopia would get worse.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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These tiny fossorial ophidians — though not the tiniest (that title belongs to this 4-inch snake from Barbados) — are nearly sightless.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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By hooking up the brains of blind rats to compasses, scientists in Japan found the sightless rodents could navigate a maze nearly as well as normally sighted rats.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Apr. 2015
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“Purblind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/purblind. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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